July 2004

Clicking around this morning, I found the work of Lúcio Santos – lots of modularity exploring slightly offset asymmetric repetitiveness. The house pictured here, for instance, "a detached single-family home, pre-manufactured and assembled on site," can also be stacked further upon itself in a kind of vertical stutter to form towers.On its own, it also vaguely resembles a prosthetic knuckle, or some other sort of avant-garde medical device manufactured from high grade plastic.House for David Cronenberg.

Santos's modular dining experience is also worth zooming in on – a prototype table/seating unit perhaps soon to grace a kitchen (or campground) near you. Or perhaps it's a new kind of shelter for street chess players.

I found this architects' blog (http://blog.phsarchitects.co.uk/archives/abandoned-housing-taiwan) the other day with a post about a similar, but much older, design in Taiwan. Unfortunately it's now abandoned but there's some really nice photos on the flickr streamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cantikfotos/sets/72157594230283909/

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